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Entrepreneur from Colombia that is passionate about flowers and that through her family's company is changing the lives of 200 employees (most of them are women heads of households). I am also a member of the Marketing Committee of Asocolflores (Colombian Flowers Association). I graduated from International Business at Eafit University in 1999 and went to live in Miami for 14 years and started working as an International flower buyer for 6 years at USA Floral, Premium Fowers, and Spectrum Flowers. At the same time, I started a flower farm with my family in 1999 and since then I have been traveling the world and opening new markets to export our Hydrangeas. Our farm is the biggest hydrangea farm in South America in one location: with 23 hectares located in Medellin/Colombia) and we now sell to 23 countries."Flores del Este is the Most Reliable Hydrangea farm in the Market "In the high plains of the municipality of La Ceja, State of Antioquia, the wind smells like flowers. It is not by mere chance we are close to the city of Eternal Spring (Medellin, Colombia). The aroma speaks for itself surrounding the environment and embellishing mountains and valleys. “Tierradentro Farm” It was María Eugenia Gómez the pioneer of this excellent work. Her first contact with flowers came through the flower vases that her grandmother Rosita used to arrange. Among acanthuses and camellias, hydrangeas were always the ones that caught her attention, and years later, what begun as a hobby or maybe a pastime became a large company. Exchanging cattle for hydrangeas cuttings, the sentences “Sow harmony and you shall harvest illusions, sow illusions and you shall harvest life” started to make a lot of sense. Employees: 200 permanent jobs. Production: 5 million stems a year.Hectares in production 23 hectares, 57 acres.Certifications: Rainforest and Florverde

Listed skills include Import, Export, International Trade, Wholesale, and 15 others.